An objective approach to prioritizing system improvements

There are many reasons electric utilities make system improvements. Some are progressive in improvements, others are more conservative. Regardless of the approach, each utility performs planning studies and as a result, comes up with listings of required system improvements. When this list becomes long, there is difficulty in deciding the order of completion of required system improvement projects. As a result, an objective approach to prioritizing system improvements has been developed. This review discusses factors leading to the development, the actual development, implementation, and examples of the prioritization approach.